ALEX WEBB & REBECCA NORRIS WEBB MASTER WORKSHOP

WORKSHOP WITH ALEX WEBB & REBECCA NORRIS WEBB

"FINDING YOUR VISION" MAY 19-20, 2018, BOWEN ISLAND

FotoFilmic Master Workshops program is designed to facilitate access to the celebrated practice of some of today’s most influential photographic artists. Conveniently scheduled during weekends and in the midsts of Bowen Island’s amazing natural scenery (Vancouver, BC, Canada), FotoFilmic’s Weekend Master Workshops are sure to inspire and boost the creative vision of all burgeoning photographers!

Central to our workshops concept is also to re-experience a kind of natural artistic conviviality or camaraderie lost to globalization and instant communication: our small Pacific island setting slows down time and invites both the conversational and the personal to take part unscheduled making for meaningful networking.

We’re incredibly excited to announce Alex Webb and Rebecca Norris Webb for one of our Master Workshop weekends this Spring!

Don’t miss this rare opportunity to learn directly from some of the most iconic figures of photography today! Read on below for a detailed workshop description and quickly reserve 1 of the only 18 open seats!

Do you know where you’re going next with your photography––or where it’s taking you? This intensive weekend workshop will help photographers begin to understand their own distinct way of seeing the world, and introduce participants to the art of editing and sequencing their photographs intuitively. It will also help photographers figure out their next step photographically––from deepening their own unique vision to the process of discovering and making a long-term project that they’re passionate about. A workshop for both serious amateurs and professionals, for both university photography students and seasoned fine art and documentary photographers, it will taught by Alex and Rebecca, a creative team who often edit projects, exhibitions, and books together––including their recently reissued, Violet Isle: A Duet of Photographs from Cuba, which was exhibited at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and their most recent book, Slant Rhymes. This workshop will include a group editing exercise, as well as an individual editing assignment, tailored to each participant.

NOTE: This is a workshop for photographers who collaborate with the world, not for those who dramatically alter their photographs digitally.

Requirements:For the first day of the workshop, participants need to bring 50 small work prints from one or two projects, work you feel best represents who you are as a photographer. For a passionate amateur this may include work from a single trip (such as a road trip or train trip, or perhaps a trip to another country) or from an event (such as a festival or wedding or other gathering). For more advanced fine art or documentary photographers, this may be work from a long-term personal project you hope will one day be a book.

All prints should be small, roughly 4×6 inches or 5×7 inches. They can be inexpensive machine prints, such as those made at a drugstore, or small inkjet prints. We don’t care about the quality of the print; we just need to be able to see the image.

Schedule (Subject to change)

Saturday May 1910-10:15: Welcome, workshop overview 10:15-12:30: Group portfolio review; individual assignments given 12:30-1:30: Lunch 1:30-2:00: Editing presentation 2-3:15: Editing exercise 3:15-4:00: Q&A; participants working on indiv. assignments. 7-8:30pm: “Together and Apart: The Photographs of Alex Webb and Rebecca Norris Webb,” joint talk followed by a Q&A and book signing at Polygon Gallery. This event is required of all the workshop participants, but it’s open to the public, too so please feel free to invite friends and family.

Sunday May 2010-10:30: Participants finishing individual assignments. 10:30-12:30: Go over the individual editing assignment. 12:30-1:30: Lunch 1:30-3:30: Presentations 3:30-4pm: Break (Grab coffee with the Webbs if you wish, for a casual Q&A). 4-5pm: Final presentation/Q&A with Webbs 5-6pm: Farewell drink with the Webbs. Closing reception of solo exhibition by Ryota Kajita, juried by the Webbs.

ABOUT ALEX WEBB & REBECCA NORRIS WEBB

Alex Webb has published 16 photography books, including The Suffering of Light, a survey book of 30 years of his color photographs.He’s exhibited at museums worldwide including the Whitney Museum of American Art, N.Y., the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. A Magnum Photos member since 1979, his work has appeared in TheNew York Times Magazine, National Geographic, and other publications. He has received numerous awards including a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2007. His most recent books are La Calle: Photographs from Mexico and the collaborative book Slant Rhymes with Rebecca Norris Webb. Alex is represented by Stephen Bulger Gallery, Toronto.

Originally a poet, Rebecca Norris Webb often interweaves her text and photographs in her six books, most notably with her monograph, My Dakota—an elegy for her brother who died unexpectedly—with a solo exhibition of the work at The Cleveland Museum of Art in 2015. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, National Geographic, and is in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Cleveland Museum of Art, and George Eastman Museum, Rochester, N.Y. A new edition of Violet Isle: A Duet of Photographs from Cuba (with Alex Webb) will be published in early 2018. Rebecca is represented by Ricco/Maresca Gallery, New York. The Webbs joint instagram: https://www.instagram.com/webb_norriswebb/